"How-To" SPOON FISHING For Salmon, Trout, & Steelhead. (COMPLETE GUIDE!)

hey how're you addicts out there welcome back to another addictive fishing tutorial my name is jordan Kenichi with addictive fishing if you guys are new to this channel be sure to go down here and hit subscribe and hit that little Bell notification our goal is to educate entertain and inspire anglers of all walks of life all over the world to go out and enjoy the great outdoors and fishing of all types so today we have a little educational piece coming at you a tutorial on how to fish spoons for salmon trout and steelhead something we've never done before but one of our all-time favorite styles of fishing so stay tuned you guys are gonna see what's coming right now when it comes to spoon fishing it's a method that's only really effective in one to three ways of styles of fishing while you're out on the river so what we're gonna do first we're gonna go over rod selection we're going to go over our spoons and some of the different ways that we like to rig them and then we're gonna take you down to the river and show you different kind of water that you want to find and actually how you're gonna cast and swing and retrieve these spoons to be effective for salmon trout or steelhead whatever species you're going to target with them so first and foremost let's go over a couple rod selections a good spoon rod is gonna be based more on your length of your rod and the sensitivity what you want to feel while you're fishing these spoons and we'll go over them a little more as we hit the river is you want to be able to feel that flutter and you want to really be able to detect bottom that's probably the most important part because spoons more so than any other kind of lure are very heavy and they fall fast so having a good sense that abroad whether it be these guide select rows that I have or any other kind of rod on the market that's at least eight and a half foot and up and has a good sensitivity what I have here in my hand this is 9 to 8 to 17 guides to like Pro and this isn't a baitcaster model we'll go over this a little bit more in a minute but this is the 9 foot 8 to 17 and the spin model a lot of different anglers like to use the the bay casting models of these rods for fishing spoons because a couple of the techniques that you use while fishing them if you're newer to fishing and you're not gonna be comfortable using that bait casting reel you're gonna want to go with the spinning up model like this but and I'll go over more the reasons while we start demonstrating the fishing with with the bait caster of why you'd want to use a bait caster sometimes over a spinning reel so these 8 to 17 pound rods are really a good weight because you have a lot of sensitivity it's light in the hand it has a lot of sensitivity registered coming through this 30 pound braided that we have on and I like to go a 30 and nothing much more because I like to be able to get that spoon down and deep into the run without a lot of line drags from the current on a heavier 40 or 50 pound braided line but braided line is pretty key on this because you want that high sensitivity what I've done with these rods is of course my braided line all the way down I like to have it with about a 20 pound 15 to a 20 pound fluorocarbon bumper that I'll tie with a blood knot at the tip of the fluorocarbon and the braided line you see right here where I have the blood knot tied I connect those two and you can go back and review some of our other tutorials that we have on tying knots to get that blood knot or a crazy Alberto or some kind of uni knot that's going to connect your braided to your fluorocarbon line down to my spoon and I'll go over the rigging of the spoon here in just a minute I just use a normal fisherman's knot but back to the rod setup this reel here is a 2003 thousand series Helios baitcasting reel one of my favorite very very smooth very easy to learn how to cast because it has a great drag system inside for casting those those heavy spoons and then what I have on here is a Kaimana 4000 c4c 40 not 4000 but any kind of 3000 or 4000 series reel is gonna work best just for being that you're fishing for salmon steelhead and you want something that's a little heavier and that's some good line pickup for fighting those fish but again the 30 pound braid on this one here see 40 on a good 8 to 17 pound rod is really ideal so now that we've covered the rod selection we're going to go over our spoon selection and spoon selection really kind of goes in and determines on what kind of water that you're fishing brillier there's only a certain amount of runs on the river being one a real slow stagnant one or two a nice fast riffle or a good sweeping tail out or you're gonna want to fish these spoons so I like a little bit heavier spoon what I have here is a few different sizes and they come in about three or four different sizes depending on what company you're coming you're looking to shop with these are pline spoons and this is the two v model this is probably one of my favorite sizes it's just heavy enough to get you down in almost all water currents but then it's light enough that you're not constantly getting snagged on the bottom very quickly so they go from different sizes whether it's quarter ounce all the way up to two v then and back and forth in them in that range some of them are actually going to be a little bit heavier and it's gonna help you get down in fast water or a high water situation but jumping from that over to color color is probably the most important scheme on this other than your size and weight you can add weight to spoons by using split shot or an inline weight and we can go over that a little more later but having a good range of sizes is going to help you a lot depending on what kind of runs you're fishing and I like to go a little bit heavier in my spoon selection but when it comes down to color I like to have a range of about three different styles I like an all silver I like an all bronze or gold and I like a two-tone whether it's silver and gold but one of my favorites is going to be the old blue and silver so having a good range knowing what your favorite is having those two different shades of that silver and that bronze are really going to make you effective and fishing different kinds of water clarity and we'll go over that once we hit the water but these two tones you know the blue and silver is a very good clear water tone and then if you're going either dirty or clear that the bronze and the silver really either way are gonna be effective depending on how you present that spoon so the other kind of spoon I have sitting here next to me is probably one of the more old-school styles of spoons that we see out there and it's the old steely these used to come on sheets in the in the tackle shop and they probably even still do they're a little bit cheaper model of spoon but have a great way of fishing as well but they are a lot heavier so if you're just learning how to fish spoons you might not want to go straight to the steely because you're gonna end up losing a lot of them but it has a different design it has more of a fat body so it actually has a bigger sling to it a bigger thump and we'll go over that thumping once we hit the water and show you the technique and the way that you want these spoons fishing through the water column but the sealy is a great one to have in your box and it's a great one is a little bit cheaper and it's gonna allow you to really learn well how to fish these spoons especially if it's a nice deep water one of the most important variations that US addicts make on our spoons every single time we take them out of the package is the hook change a lot of times these different kind of spoons come with pretty cheap hooks that they the most expensive part of manufacturing a lure is the hook itself so these P line ones come with a pretty chintzy hook you can see I can almost Bend that back and forth just by hand and this hooks connected straight to that split ring what I'm gonna do initially is I'm going to take that split ring I'm going to open it up you can either use your fingernails or you can use this split ring pliers but my split prot pliers are not in my boat so they're at home and I'm just gonna take that thing right off of there I'll put that split ring and I'm gonna have a naked spoon but I'm gonna then make a little bit of a change too so you got this make sure to throw that away in the garbage not on the beach for somebody to step on but the first thing I'm gonna do when I take that hook off is I'm gonna add a barrel swivel and you can see I had that barrel swivel right here any kind of size works as long as you know it's gonna be heavy enough to be able to fight the fish that you're targeting and what this is going to help with this is gonna help with the action of this spoon it's not gonna hold that hook in one designated place and allow that spoon to work around that hook it's gonna have that swiveling action and it's gonna let that spoon have a full range of motion as well as allow that fish to have full rotation on your spoon while you're fighting him he can spin he can do his 360s and cartwheels and jump out of the water but he's not gonna come off because that hook will move around with that barrel swivel so I'm gonna take this barrel swivel I'm gonna open that split ring up again with my my finger nails again not recommended I'd use the snap ring pliers if I was you add that swivel to it it's like that so this is what we have we have our snap ring we have our barrel swivel and now we're gonna add our hook so what I have here sitting next to me is a two off Mustad side wash these are probably one of my favorite types of hook on the market not only because it's Mustad but just to the way they're designed look at the difference in between these two hooks that we have that this is the one that the lure came with and this is the two out Mustad so you see one the sheer size and the hook gap and as well as the bevel in this hook the way it's beveled out to the side so that when that fish grabs and turns that thing rolls all the way under and actually digs in that maxillary and that's going to keep that fish hooked all the way through your fight so that's an open ice I wash I have here so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna take I'm gonna put that open eye right through that barrel swivel I'm gonna take this your Gerber pliers and I'm gonna squeeze that thing down tight and we're ready to fish so you can see I also have a full barrel swivel and a clasp set up on top of this lure here and that's going to stay on there that's imminent that's gonna help us fish this correctly so you guys stay tuned we're gonna rig this up on the rod we're going to take you down in the water show you a couple different spots and we're going to show you how to fish it so now that we're done we're looking for the kind of water that we want to throw a spoon and we're gonna talk about the two styles of fishing and spoon one is going to be on the swing and that's what we're gonna demonstrate for you first two is going to be a cast and retrieve and almost a twitch there's a couple of different methods you can use in some kind of stagnant water but for the first method that we're going to talk about swinging the most crucial part of finding a good hole to swing a spoon is something that has a good steady current something that's about walking speed maybe a little bit faster or a little bit slower and that has a nice straight line and doesn't have a lot of obstruction doesn't have big boils it doesn't have big pockets in the hole it's a nice steady run more of your typical steelhead run or salmon run where those fish can come up hold in little pockets in behind boulders and you can use that calculating cast to cast across the river and swing and cover more water with the spoon than with any other presentation possible that's kind of the beauty of that spoon is that it's a good way to cover a lot of water quick because you're casting and swinging it down what we're gonna do first what we have behind us is your typical spoon run we have a nice steady current the river comes down through a nice stiff rapid drops off into a bucket and we have about four to six feet depth all the way across the river with a good walking speed all the way down and through the run first and foremost what you're gonna do once you get to that run is you're gonna walk all the way to the top of the hole that's really how you want to start to fish a spoon from top to bottom that's how you're gonna cover it I'm gonna go over your steps and your casting method as we hit the water here but again find that steady current nice and wide a good place where you can cast short middle far and swing that spoon down kind of breaking down every little piece of that run so that you can find right where those fish are going to be so step into the river with me I'm gonna show you guys your direction of cast and how you want to present the spoon so one thing I preach in all my hardware tutorials is how you go and approach a run what I always want to do is I want to start close I want to go to the middle and then I want to cast far the worst thing an angler can do is walk up to the river and cast all the way across what you're doing is you're eliminating all that water in between you and that far cast where there's plenty of potential for there to be fish what I usually do is I walk up to the run I look out here I stopped seeing bottom about ten feet out in front of me that's a little bit close it's a little bit extreme for the closed cast but what my point is is those fish could be only a robbed links out into this river right now and I could still be able to catch them so the key is is to not start your cast too far you want to go to the close cast go to the middle and then go far and then you want to move your feet down river or the boat down river so that you can cover the rest of that run we're we're kind of keying in on a very aggressive very angry bite with these spoons because they give a really hard thump and they put off a lot of vibration so that those fish can't help but chase after and hit them and a lot of times bigger fish so what I'm gonna do with the spoon it's very imperative that you don't ever really cast it upriver especially in a fast water situation what we have here we have your your typical spoon run so what I always want to do is that if ninety degrees is the far opposite bank I always want to cast either at ninety degrees with the spoon or at forty five and why that is it so I can set up my drift so that I get a good line management with the current so that my spoon will swing at about the same depth all the way through that run you don't want to go from top to bottom or bottom the top you wanted to stay the same depth and get that nice slope and go all the way through the run the key is is as you reel and as you bring tension against your line is that spoon flies through there you don't want to get too much velocity on that spoon to where it's doing a big circle that's not the right presentation we want that spoon sitting on its belly flopping back and forth and throwing off as much vibration as it can as it goes through the run you guys can kind of see that as we go right here in front of me I don't know if you can see it very well but you see how that spoon has a nice slow lope to it it's not flying around in a circle it's not going extreme and it doesn't have too much velocity as it goes it looks like it's dying basically so it keys in on those fish's natural feeding habits to where they want to swim up and kill it just because it's dying in front of them so what I'm gonna do with my first cast I'm gonna go to the middle first because of the Inc up inside cast here's a little too close I'm gonna go to the middle rate is about ninety degrees it's gonna hit the water I'm gonna reel it tight and I'm gonna keep my rod tip pointed right at that spoon and immediately feel for that thump if I don't feel a thump I want a real more and I want to reel down into my line so that that thump gets created and I can feel that spoon working what you don't want to do is cast dump line and wait to find bottom what I always preach is as you're fishing any kind of hardware you want to cast out at your pursuit angle you want to fish that lured down to the bottom and then across you don't want to cast let it sink and then start fishing because that's how you're going to lose all of your gear and you're gonna get really frustrated in trying to learn these styles of fishing so you want to cast out anticipate bottom as it falls and then swing it across the bottom so that you get that proper drift so I'm going to do that one more time for you guys and I want you to watch very closely on where my raw tip is throughout this drip I'm gonna go right at ninety again huh I'm gonna go right at ninety again straight across the river I'm gonna reel that tight I'm gonna keep my rod tip pointed right at it with that tip down low that's gonna cause that spoon to sink and immediately I can start to feel that thump you can watch the end of my rod sit there doing that nice thumping motion I'm gonna swing that all the way in till we get it nice and close to this rock Bank here and then I'm gonna reel it back in and you guys can already see that almost zero reeling is taking place as I'm fishing this runt I'm letting the water do the work and letting a small belly get created in my line so that that spoon swings across at that same depth if you're really in the entire time you either need to cast at a different angle more downriver and/or change your position in the run because there's too many boils or there's too slack of water to get that spoon to properly work so now that I've done that middle cast I'm gonna do a far cast maybe even angled a little bit more downriver at about 260 I'm gonna reel that thing tight again keeping my rod tip pointed right at the spoon the whole time nice slow real until I feel that current catch and I feel I have a good thump and I'm gonna swing that thing gradually into the bank and the way you're gonna manage the depth of your spoon is the direction of your rod tip you see I have my rod pointed straight at it so I have a straight point of contact through my hand and that's for sensitivity but what I'm really gonna do is every time I feel bottom and or maybe a fish bite I'm gonna lift up and what that does is every time I lift my tip up in the air it brings that spoon or that spinner to the surface every time I point my tip down it'll bring that spoon or that spinner down to the bottom and whatever direction you're pointing that your rod tip as its fishing through the zone is where that spoon is gonna go so you don't want to have too high of a rod tip and you don't want to have too low you want to go right in your box from about your nose down to your belly button and that's going to keep you fishing at the proper depth all the way through the run and it helped you adjust quickly as you go so now that I made my short middle forecast I'm gonna take two steps downriver and I'm going to repeat that so one of the main reasons why you see people use a bait casting reel when fishing these spoons is in went in heavy water and in a in a fast water situation a lot of people given the weight of their Spooner is gonna click the bail and slowly let line out and almost back troll the spoon down the run with a bait with a spinning reel it's going to be a little bit harder to go about that method and that's why people could prefer the bait casting reel at times which you'll learn further and further as you get further and further into fishing these kind of hardware all right so now that I've worked my spoon closed middle far and from the top all the way to the bottom of this fast riffle we're gonna go down and show you guys the second kind of water I like to fish spoons in which is a little bit frog ear or slower water which is going to create a little bit different technique that we're gonna have to use to get the right presentation so walk on down with me I'll show you the next spot all right so now what I have behind me is the second kind of run that I would fish a spoon in which is a lot different than the first one in the speed what we have here behind us is more of a tail out or more of just a bucket this could be any type of run if you use your imagination whether it was a 10 to 15 foot deep hole or whether it's like this one where it's about waist deep to chest high all the way through the tail out all the way into the next rapid what's going to change in the way that we fish this is the direction of our cast and the action that we put on the spoon at time so if you're in a big deep froggy pool you can actually twitch and you can move that spoon around to give yourself more action which is naturally happening in a fast water like you saw just a second ago so what we're gonna do here to fish this correctly again we're gonna go with our close middle far and we're gonna go with our two-step routine to get through the run but you're gonna be casting it much more of a downriver angle so that you can get the right presentation on that spoon in order to get your swing in order to get your action that loaf out of the spoon you're gonna have to cast downriver so your line and the counter action of the current catches and you get the right presentation so let me step in I'm going to show you guys here and I'm gonna be a little more exaggerated on the direction of my casting I'm not gonna go at 90 I'm gonna go almost at a 45 down River again starting a little bit close so that you can cover that water that's inside I'm gonna cast downriver and again that's mainly so that I do don't get too much sinc on that toothless weight spinner or excuse me so that I don't get too much sinc on that two-fifths weight spoon and what's gonna happen if I do cast too upriver it's going to go immediately into the rocks and I'm gonna be reeling too fast making that spoon do that full 360 motion that we don't want that turns the fish off so we're gonna cast again a little bit more a little bit more distance on this next one but again more of a downriver 45-degree cast pointing my rod tip right at that spoon swinging it across and you can tell here I'm having to reel a little bit more but you don't want to reel too much again to create that 360 motion out of your spoon you want that nice slow lope kickin back and forth about every half second and a nice nice little vibration right on your tip all the way into the bank and then we're gonna call that one good I'm on my third cast I'm gonna bomb it way across there probably be more to downriver angle so that I could have more water catching my line tip pointed right at the spoon slow reel all the way into the bank and then I'm gonna take my two steps down and you can tell even by fishing a big wide run like this I'm gonna be able to get in front of those fish no matter where they're sitting in between those pockets and those boulders because I'm going close little far and then taking my two steps down the river the next thing I'm going to show you guys that's pretty easy this is the more easy run to fish because it doesn't have as much technicality in that fast moving water you have a nice stagnant slow kind of even current all the way across the river which you're gonna be able to manage well and not be catching on bottom too much one thing that you can add a little trick that you'll find over time is you can add motion to your spoon when fishing water like this so what I'm gonna do so I'm going to cast out and I'm actually gonna give this thing a little bit of a twitch as it comes through about every half crank I'm gonna lift that spoon and drop my tip only about two or three feet of a twitch and what that's doing is it's kind of creating a real sporadic real aggressive motion on that spoon which will really kind of key in on a bite especially if we're talking about a salmon or a steelhead species they're gonna want to chase that spoon down because again it looks very vulnerable and it looks like it's dying so I'm gonna make that motion all the way into the bank and I'm gonna bring that in and this isn't a technique you're gonna want to use in fast water because you already have too much resistance against that spoon that that little bit of a lift and that little bit of emotion is gonna pull you up out of the strike zone and out of the fish's mouth so I'm gonna take my two steps I'm gonna make another cast short I'm gonna cast the middle alright everybody so to wrap it all up spoon fishing is incredibly exhilarating and a really really effective way to go out and catch salmon trout and steelhead and in any kind of river or any kind of climate or anyplace you are out in the world the keys in on a really natural and very aggressive bite which is in my opinion one of the best takes that you can get in the salmon and steelhead world those fish swim up and they absolutely crush it so use all these techniques that we've showed you watch this video over a couple times dial in your colors and do not forget to leave these spoons in your tackle box every time you go to the river because you will use them and they will be successful for you if you guys liked what you saw today be sure to go down here and subscribe hit that little Bell notification and be sure to comment below with what your favorite spoon color is what your favorite style what your favorite weight is let's hear it from you guys so that all these people out there in the world trying to fish these spoons can get better at it and go out and have more fun just like you so thank you so much for tuning in today you guys you stay fishy stay addicted we'll see you out there [Music] [Music]

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Length: 21min 31sec (1291 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 12 2019